It is simply not that good. I watched it during my last stay in Brazil. Its story is takes an odd detour half way through. It could have been so much better with a better story. They used the same sort of camera techniques and splits in the sequence that Cidade de Deus used. However Cidade de Deus was much much better. You’ll need to know portuguese to watch them! unless you have subtitles.
And by the way…the Germans tried to say it was a film about Police corruption. Of course yet another holier than thou Germanic European with their socialist know it all attitude. Its hard to see the message if the film if there is indeed any. The military police were presented as tragic heroic characters if anything. The drug trafficante appear to be low life scum and while watching the film you have little compassion for the characters. Indeed there is zero character development in this area.
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